No. 15 TCU starts its 2026-27 women’s basketball season Tuesday night with a familiar setting and a very different roster.
The Horned Frogs host Oral Roberts at Schollmaier Arena at 6:30 p.m. CT, kicking off a seven-game homestand to open the year. TCU has turned its home floor into a fortress, winning 44 straight games at Schollmaier Arena - the longest active home winning streak in college basketball.
The challenge now is blending that home-court edge with a roster that looks nothing like the one that powered the program’s rise. After leaning on veteran transfers in recent seasons, head coach Mark Campbell is now guiding a younger group built around players with multiple years left.
Even with the turnover, TCU still brought in help through the portal. The Horned Frogs added junior guard Lanie Grant from North Carolina, junior point guard Jadyn Wooten from Oklahoma State and sophomore forward Lara Somfai from Stanford.
Somfai is already drawing plenty of attention. She landed on the preseason watch list for the Katrina McClain Award, which goes to the top power forward in women’s college basketball. She is one of 20 players on the list and just the second player in TCU history to earn that recognition, joining Amy Okonkwo, who made the list in 2018-19.
Her freshman season at Stanford gave a clear picture of why she’s on the radar. Somfai averaged 10.8 points and 9.1 rebounds while starting all 32 games. The Hungary native finished 10th nationally among freshmen in rebounding average and was one of only two power-conference freshmen to put up at least 10 points and nine rebounds per game.
She also collected ACC All-Freshman honors, was named ACC Rookie of the Week four times and posted seven double-doubles, the most by an ACC freshman.
Inside, TCU will also lean on junior center Clara Silva, the lone returning starter from last season. Silva was named to the preseason watch list for the 2026 Lisa Leslie Award, which honors the nation’s top center. She is one of 20 players on that list and one of three Big 12 centers included.
The 6-foot-7 Silva averaged nine points, 7.4 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in 23.9 minutes per game last season. She finished with six double-doubles, ranked second in the Big 12 with 67 total blocks and also earned a spot on the Naismith Trophy Player of the Year watch list and the Preseason All-Big 12 Team.
Her presence will matter as TCU tries to define itself with so many new faces around her.
The Horned Frogs have handled Oral Roberts well in the series, leading 7-4 all time and winning the last three meetings. The teams last played on Nov. 6, 2023, when TCU beat Oral Roberts 76-56 at Schollmaier Arena in Campbell’s first game as head coach.
Oral Roberts went 15-15 last season.
Tuesday’s game is the first of three in six days for TCU, which returns to Schollmaier Arena on Thursday to face Le Moyne. For Campbell, it’s the first real glimpse of how this younger roster will fit together, with Silva providing the continuity and Somfai among the newcomers expected to play major roles.
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